Father says killed daughter in hijab case

TORONTO (Reuters) - A teenager who was said to have clashed
with her father about whether she should wear a traditional
Muslim head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her
father told police he had killed her.

Aqsa Parvez, 16, was found without a pulse in her home in
Mississauga earlier on Monday. She was resuscitated by
paramedics, treated at two hospitals, and later succumbed to
her injuries, police said on Tuesday.

Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, has been charged
with murder and was remanded back into custody after his first
court appearance early on Tuesday.

"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he
had just killed his daughter," Jodi Dawson, a constable with
Peel Regional Police, told Reuters. "Everything else is
evidentiary in nature and the investigation is in its
preliminary stages at this point."

The victim's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, was arrested and
charged with obstructing police.

The story was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers on
Tuesday. The newspapers quoted friends and schoolmates of the
victim as saying she argued with her father over wearing a
hijab, the traditional head scarf worn by Muslim females.

Photos of the teen retrieved from a social networking Web
site show her in Western dress with her long dark hair loose.

"She was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of
her brother," the Toronto Star quoted a classmate as saying.

Others were quoted as saying the girl wore traditional
Muslim dress when leaving the house in the morning, but would
change into other clothes in school washrooms.

Dawson said investigators will likely speak to the victim's
schoolmates. The father will return for a bail hearing on
Wednesday.